My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn't in some very significant way a let-down.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.

The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

We just have to be ourselves.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.